Whole No. 927.
Tarboroagh, (Edgecombe County, JV. C.) Saturday,-December 9 t4L
VOL XX Xo. 49
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LIFE.
By H. Longfellow.
Tell me not in mournful numb rs,
Life is but an empty dream!"
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life iearnest !
And the grave is not its goal;
"Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoymen, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way:
Bui to act, that each to morrow
Find us firiher than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are bea-ing
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'er head!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footsteps on the sands of time;
Footsteps, that perhaps anoiher,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and .shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
From the Cross and Journal.
FOURIERISM.
This is a new ism, introduced by Fourier,
a Fienchman. Its object is to effect a
fundamental reform in the organization of
society. Its advocates are now industri
ously urging it upon the attention of the
community, and some two or three associ
ations, bised on these new principles, are
either formed or about being formed, in
Ohio. Its high pretensions require inves
tigation. The b isis o( 'hi reformation i contained
in the following assertion: "The evils
which affli t society are social, not politi
cal, in their naiure, and a social reform,
only can eradicate ihem." This .social re
form into which ii proposes to organiz -society
is something as follows: Let three
hundred families embracing vnpralU-
about 1800 persons, form a ioint Ktrk ,f
their property, purchase a huge tract of
lanci, erect r.ear the centre a large dwelling,
sufficiently capacious to accommod te the
whole, and so constructed as to allow each
family to live by ii.-elf, taking ih- ir meals
as they please either at the common table
or at the private apartments -ech family
to hold shares according t0 the amount it
invested, every person to follow that occu
pation for which he i best adapted, and
the profits to be divided among the fami
lies according to their shares.
From this brief sketch of this new plan it
will be seen that it is evi lenil V an imnnn
ment on the Shaker system, as it allows of
nuiviouai property, oi marriage and fami
ly ties, and the rights of conscience in re
ligion. Its advocates say that it is no con
jecture, but it has been deduced 'from the
laws which govern creation in all its
spheres, material, aerial, and organic; and il
once carried into iffect. it will produce the
same peace and harmony among men, as
attraction and repulsion 'produce jn lhe
movements of the heavenly bodies. Now
e have not the facts at hand to prove
that this is not so. We have never pursu
en the. studies of astronomy, geometry,
chemistry, and anatomy, far enough to de
termine how many human beings it takes
to make a complete social machine. For
aught we know, 1800 may be the right
number. All ihe variety of human lal-
'Went, wanis. and dispositions mav nm'tPr Wm'pu
7 lu-iiuuiis may run
fclcue in lnat number of individuals
I he old saying, that it takes every body to
make a world, may be no more true than
many other old sayings. J
u graniing that the riRht number has
been formed, and th:it it embraces the teqni
site variety of talent and disposition, we
say they are no more favorably situated for
the production ol happiness ihan un.h r the
common organization. They leaeoutj
entirely ,ny noticeof the individual evil
ol the ilenravit ir nf th hum ... u n
r .v Ui,M ui-rtii. i ue y
cciii 10 nave supposed that all evil must
be either social or political, and as every
variety of political organization has b.-en
tried, and found to fail of making earth a
-paradise, they have no alternative but to
suppose all the evils to be ol a social na
ture. Thus prone is man to look to every
source but himself for the evils which be
set him. There is in this system also an
entire neglect of the only true means of re
formation developed in the gospel. There
is nothing said of a change in the form of
society is necessary to banish evil from the
earth.
All such attempts to reform theearih we
consider as useless as to attempt to purify
the stream by operating at its termination.
The individual is the source, and so
cial and political organizations the channel
through which he runs If the fountain is
corrupt, a change in the shape of the chan
nel will not purify the stream, but if ii
gush forth pure at the spring, it may even
cleanse the impurities fiom the channel
ihro' which it flows So let every indi
vidual's heart be made pure, and the social
and political organizations will not long re
main contaminated.
Jl Fourier Riot in Georgia. Gen
Brisbane, a devoted advocate of Fourici
isui, and who has for some time past been
attempting to test the system on a large
scale in Georgia, has had a difficulty with
the Ockmulgee and Flint Railroad, Irwin
county, in that State, which had neatly re
sulted in the destruction of himself and
family. The militia of Columbus county
turned out under Col. Tift, and bore off
Gen. Brisbane and family from the scene
of disorder. The cause of the insubordina
tion of the laborers is not stated. Gen
Brisbane was superintendent of the road.
3 A lady named Mrs. Jane Saunders,
wife of Mr. Thomas Saunders, living near
Eliziheth Citv, N C, wa burnt to death
last week by her dress accidentally taking
fire.
Mulberry Paper. Thev are makinz a
noise at the North about the manufacture of
txper from mulberry leaves. This inven
tion originated in Petersburg, and that the
hrst paper thus manufacturer was made in
Mattoaco mills. Our Petersburg neigh
bors should assert the priority of invention.
Some doctor, we believe, made the discov
ery. The Northampton (Ma-s ) Courier savs:
We have seen at the office of Dr. Steb
bine, newspapers, pamphlets, cap and letter
paper, made ol mulberry foliage, of very
good quality; on one sheet of which we
have both printed and written, and are ful
ly satisfied that smooth, strong, and deli
cate white and colored! paper has and can
be made from mulberry leaves, fit for the
pen or press. " Rich Com.
Health of the President. The Balti
more Patriot of Saturday afternoon, says, a
gentleman who left Washington this morn
ing, states that the President was represen
ted to be quite ill with two physicians in
attendance. Raleigh Stand.
ORIGIN OF THE NAMES OF THE
StATES.
Maine was so called as early as 1616,
from Maine in France, of which Henrietta
Maria Q een of England, was at that lime
proprietor.
New Hampshire was the name given to
the territory conveyed bv the Plymouth
company to Capt. John Mason, by patent,
Nov. 7, 1639, with reference to the paten
tee, who was Governor of Portsmouth, in
Hampshire England.
Vermont was o called by the inhabi
tants in their declaration of independence,
Jan. 16, 1777, from the French verdy
green, and rnont mountain.
Massachusetts tribe of Indians in the
neighborhood of Boston. The tribe is
thought to have derived its name from the
Blue Hills of Milton. ! have learned.'
says Roger Williams 'that the Massachu-
ii i e a i. in i i 1 1
sens was so caneu irom ine mue runs
anode isianu was so caiieo in ion, m
reference to the Island of Rhodes in the
Mediteranean
Connecticut was so called from the Indi
an name of its nrincinal River'
Isew York was so called in reieience to
-. . . i ,
the rluke of York and Albany, to whom
this territory was granted.
Pennsvlvania wn, nlW in 1 fisi f
ier v
Delaware Bav. on whieh it lit., and ivhiri,
received its name from Lord De La War.
who died in this bay
Maryland was so called in honor to
Henrietta Maria, Q.ieen of Charles I., in
hi, patent to Lord Baltimore, June, 30.
16:2.
Virginia was so called, in 15S4, afu r
Elizabeth the virgin Q leen of England.
Carolina was so called by the French
in 1564, in honor of King Charles IX ol
c
r ranee
Georgia was so called in 1722, in honor
of King George 1 1.
Alabama was so called in 1817, from its
principal river.
Mississippi was so called, in 1800. from
its western boundary. Mississippi is said
to denote the whole river, that is the rivet
formed by the union of many.
Louisiana was so called, in honor to
Louis XVI of France
-Tennessee was so called, in 1796, from
its principal river. The word Tennessee
is s id to signify a curved spoon.
Kentucky was so called, in 1782, from
its principal river.
Illinois was so called, in 1809, from its
principal river. The word is said to sig
nify the river of men.
Indiana was so called, in 1892, from the
American Indians.
Ohio was so called, in ISO?, from its
southern boundary.
Missouri was so called, in 1821, from
its principal river.
Michigan was so called, in 1805, from
the lake on its borders.
Arkansas was so called, in 1819 from its
pr incipal river.
Florida was so called by Juan Ponce de
Leon, in 1572, because it was discovered
on Easter Sunday, in Spain, Pascus Flor
ida. Singular Death. A few days ago,
a valuable creole negro man named Celes
tine, aged about 26 years, (belonging to Mr.
H. B Landry, of this parish.) accompanied
by a couple of dogs, proceeded a short dis
tance into the woods hunting possums,
when after a short time, he pied one on a
top branch of an old high cypress tree.
He instantly climbed the tree, and in pro
ceeding to where his object of the chase
was, the branch which he was on broke,
and he fell alighting in a sitting position on
a sharp pointed cypress knee, (a stump.)
which entered his posteriors, penetrating
his abdomen about eight inches. Life, it
appears, depar ed from him instantly, be
cause he was found dead next morning, in
the same place he fell transfixed to the
stump, with his eyes open, and he was quite
coin... . L.oisiana paper.
Pork. The Cincinnati Atlas of the
14th inst. says "Hogs begin to come in
pretty freely from Kentucky, but none
from the Miami Valley have yet made
their appearance. The market h;
opened rather higher than was expected:
300 were sold at Brighton last Saturday at
$2 62 1-2 per 100 lbs. and brought in last
night. Sales at Covington of 560 at $2
1-2; 300 at the same price, and another lot
at $2 62 1-2 and it is said a premium was
aNo paid even at that price. There were
600 at Covington last night, held . at $2
62; but buyers were not inclined to pay that.
At Brighton there was a sale of 150 yester
dagat J52.50."
In Baltimore on Monday, there were
about 600 head of live Hogs in market
The prices ranged from S3, 87 1-2 to $4
per 100 Ihs according to quality, with small
sales. Petersburg . Intelligencer.
The Abolitionists. The Abolitionists
in New England and New York Are mak-
insome new movements to carry out their
views. A Convention has been called by
a notice, numerously signed, including the
names of Garit Smith, Berrah Green, Al
van Stewart, &c , to meet at Syracuse in
December, for the purpose of effecting a
'separation from those anti-Christian com
binations, known ,under various sectarian
name?, and falsely calling themselves Chris
tian chun hes, that still persist in" refusing
to be Abolitionists.
From the Raleigh Independent.
Forgery. We see it stated in the na-
pers that a young man named W. P. Jones,
of North Carolina, has been arrested at
Mobi'e. charged with haviner drawn a draft
upon Messrs. Desha, Sheppard & Co., Com-
mission iiercuanis oi maicny, tor the sum
of 55495, to which he had forged the name
of F. M. Gilmer, Esq , of Montgomery,
Ala. Hud on which he had obtained the
'money. The money has been recovered
On his arrest he made an unsuccessful effort
to lake a dose of arsenic, and nave his rea
son for, so doing, that, he would rather ,die
than have his lamily; who are ; highly rcs-
peetable, know any thing of the circum
stance!
From Ihe Raleigh Register.
Mr. Gales: Some lime since, I saw a
Letter in your paper giving an account of
a negro boy's being bitten by a poisonous
Snake. I see by an extract from the
Journal of the Royal Institute,' that
"Common sdt, moistened with water, and
bound upon the wound, will cure the bi'e
of the most poisonous Snake." The
above is an Indian remedy, and nine times
outof ten, their remedies are good. If you
hink the above is worthy a corner in your
paper, vou can so dispose of it
SINGLE I ON.
Raleigh, Nov. 18, 1843.
We are indebted to our New York ex
changes of the 25ih inst for the following
items of Foreign intelligence brought ou'
by the steamer Caledonia, which ves-e'
arrived at Boston on the 19th inst. She
brings news to the 4th November.
The most important intelligence brought
by this paeket is the announcement in the
London Morning Herald that Lord Aber
deen had re-established political relations
wMth the United Slates, and was ready and
willing to negotiate such extended comn.er
lal relations as shall benefit both countries
without injur ing either.
Cotton was on a decline.
Important From Mexico. A Ne v
Vork paper contains news from Mexico to
the 20:h u It., and among other things, an
n ounces the fact that Santa Anna resigned
ihe Presidency of Mexico on the 5th of
February, 1843. The same paper con
tams exiracis from his letter written at
Torubay, in which he announces hi
resignation and abdication. He assigns
various reasons for the act, among which
are decline of health, monetary difficulties
of Mexico, &c.
Insurrection in Cuba. The New
York Journal of Commerce of the 20ih,
contains a letter dated Havana, Nov. 8th,
which states that intelligence had reached
that city of a slave insurrection on several
plantations near Matanzas. lhe writer
adds that it had been suppressed aft' r a
loss of fifty lives. Several slaves hung
themselves, and 67 were in custody.
Texas. Galveston papers up to the
1 3th instant have been icceived at New Or
leans
The British Government, it is stated, has
presented claims of its subjects to land in
Texas a-i ounting to from ten to twenty
millions of acres! They are principally
Empresaiio giants. These demands will
probably cover nearly all the public do
main west of the Colorado river; and the
Government ' ex8 nas been notified by
Captain Elliott, in accordance wi;h the in
struction he has received, that, unles the
facts set forth by thosr claimants are refu-
tt'd, or a satisfactory explanation given, her
Majesty's Government would f el fully
authorized to take the necessary steps to
enforce the just claims of those her liege
subjects.
The Nuvy. We learn, (says the New
Orleans Courier.) from an authentic source.
that all the officers of the navy on leave of
absence have received orders to repair
without delay to the Northern ports, and
report themselves This movement, so
sudden and unexpected to the persons con
cerned, has given rise to many and divers
commentaries. It is presumed that these
orders are general, and embrace all the
officers belonging to the service now on
leave.
(3 We learn from the Niagara Courier
that a body of Prussians, consisting of 86
families and nearly 400 persons, have pur
chased over 100 acres of land in the town
of Wakefield N. Y., on which they have
alredy founded a settlement and commen
ced improvements.
J Mr. Thos. L. Lindsay, who lived
near St Charles. Mo., has tVcmeathed to
the American Bible So iety, upwards of
$5000, hesides many bequests to the do
mestic and foreign missions. He also lib
crated all his slaves, twenty-one in num
ber; they are to be sent to Liberia, and he
has left ample provision for sending them
there, besides providing for them after
they get there. Bait. Sun.
From Texas. The schr. Galveston
trrived at New Orleans on the 16h ult ,
bringing late dates from Tex is. We copy
i few items from the Pieayune;:
The elections have gone in favor of the
ipprovers of Gen. Houston's policy.
The alleged undue interference and die
tation of England with the internal polic)
.f Texas, attracts considerable attention oi
the part of the press of Texas " General
Murphy, our Charge d'Afiairs, is, wu
learn, fully alive to the importance of ihe
proceeding, and is engaged in asci rt dning
to what extent this dictation or interfer-
n-e has been carried.
The e litor of ihe Telegraph says that
documen s have been obiained by Gen!
Murphy, in Texts, and by General Thomp
son, in Mexico, which will furnish evi
dence of the in'eniions of great Britain re
laiing to Texas, that will convince the A
merican Stdesm-n that there are few al
ternatives left to remedy the ei1.
Bloody jiffair. letter from Mil
ledg vil e. Ga., to the Editor of the Au
gusta Chronicle, dated the 14th inst., says:
A gentleman from Hancock county has
just appris- d me of a most bloody tragedy
which was transacted t'eie last night.
Owing to some family difficulty, two men
named Culver and J ickson, went to the
house of a Mr. Lawson to inflict on him
personal chastisement. Lawon seized his
gun and fled under cover of the darkness,'
but finding himself hotly pursued, turned
oid fired, and strange to say killed both
his adversaries at one shot. My in
formant is a man of character and veracity,
otherwise I shojld almost regard the story
fibulous."
Miseries of New Vork There is said
o be an old brewery somewhere in , this
city we believe in Crosby vStreet which
has three stories under ground and six
above, and contains a population of about
fiiieen hundred souls! among whom nearly
all the modern languages are spoken.
N. V. Gazette.
Tea in North Carotin' f We have
received a letter from Mr. Newbill Puck
t Lynesville, Granville county, N. C ,!
from which we do not hesitate to make the
following extract: I
'I have procured the seed of the Chi
nese Tea, so much usd in America. It
is genuine, matures perfectly well in our
climate, and can be raised in abundance,
with very little trouble The vast ambnnt
of money that must be laid out for tea eve
ly year, induces me to address you at this
time. My wish is to put it in circulation,
through the medium of some rewspiper
in Virginia." Rich. Enq
Trial of Horn. I he examination of
witnesses commenced in Baltimore on
Wednesday afternoon, in Ihe case of Adam
Horn, indicted for the murder of his wife,'
on Ihe 22d or 23d of March last. On the
morning following the Sunday on which'
prisoner fled from his house, some young
men, while shooting in the neighborhood,
came on Horn's place, and crossing a small
gully or gutter in the orchard, their atten
tion was attr acted by a hole newly dug in
it. and cloe by a circular place a liltle!
sunk. They then went to a person named
Poist, whom they informed that they had
discovered something strange in the gully,
and they thought it was Malinda Horn.
Accompanied by Puistj I hey returned-to!
the spoi, dug up the earth, and there found
the body the headless, limbless. mutila
tod trunk, seed up in a coff e . bag,.
They also found a spade belonging to the
prisoner. The coff e bag was identified
by Mr. Canghy, a merchant of Baltimore,'
as one in which he sold a quantity of cof
fee to Hoi n, nine or ten months before.
The oung men went to lhe house lo pur
sue their investigations, and there, in a. back
room up stair, they found another ;bag
containing the legs and arms of a human
being, corresponding with the trunk; these
were found in n bag soiled with mud, ex
actly resembling that in the hole of the gul
ly from which they are supposed to have,
heen taken; mud being upon -he several
limbs also conesponding w ith it;theclothes
of ihe prisoner, also found scattered 'about
the house, soiled in lhe same way, and his
shoes, even when found, wet and moist,,
and muddv, in every particular indicating
the recent visit of the wearer to that place;
still farther, by way of 'tracing him to, the
very grave of these i.utitated remains, his
footprint, exactly corresponding with..tle
shoes, was discovered at the gully. It ap
pears, loo, thai the father of the unfortun
ate woman also disappeared about the time
of the murder of his daughter, Malinda,
Horn". It is worthy of note, as one of the
extraordinary incidents connected with
this trial, that the head of Mrs. Horn has ne
ver been found. N. Y. Sun.
Horn hrs been found guilty of murder
in the first degree. i:
Manslaughter A man t arred Salmon
was killed on Monday - last, near New
Market, Henrico couniy, Va., by a man
named Johnston, his brother in-law. The
parties had had a fight in the field, Salmon
oeing Ihe aggressor, ami intoxicated at the.
Miiie t seoarat on took place; auu ?ai-
non haviwg subsequently .gone to John?
oo's house, and atta.-ked Mrs. ' John soih
his own sister with a club," in a muidec-
ius manner, was sl ot dead by her husband.
Salmon has left a wife, an estimable woman
nd several children; and Johnston, havj
ing been heid justiciable, was , not afresledj